A British-American actress, whose career spanned from 1935 to 1988. She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading movie stars during the golden age of Hollywood. She is best known for her early screen performances in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939), and her later award-winning performances in To Each His Own (1946), The Snake Pit (1948), and The Heiress (1949). Born in Tokyo to British parents, she and her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, moved with their mother to California in 1919. During her career, she often played demure ingénues opposite popular leading men, including Errol Flynn, with whom she made 9 films. Her natural beauty and refined acting style made her particularly effective in historical period dramas, such as Anthony Adverse (1936), and romantic dramas, such as Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In addition to her film career, she work in theatre, appearing 3 times on Broadway, and in television, During her film career, she won two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two New York Film Critics Circle Awards, She and Joan Fontaine are the only siblings to have won Academy Awards in a lead acting category. A lifelong rivalry between the two actresses resulted in an estrangement that lasted over three decades. She lived in Paris since 1956. In June 2017, two weeks before her 101st birthday, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire .